Masculinities in Victorian Painting

This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic.

List of contents

Contents: List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Artistic Representation and the Construction of Masculinity; The Classical Hero; The Gallant Knight; The Challenged Paterfamilias; The Valiant Soldier; The Male Nude; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Joseph A. Kestner

Summary

This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph A. Kestner
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.1995
• EAN: 9781859281086
• ISBN: 978-1-85928-108-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Gender studies, gender groups, Paintings and painting